Ticketmaster ******s again.....
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Yes, yes, I know it's been like this for some time now*, but why the f
king fkety fk can GOOD tickets not be available for fans to buy at fking reasonable prices - IE - face fking value!!!!!
So, 9am today I'm on there refreshing away for Queen and Adam Lambert tickets (Mrs Fastra absolulely loves the crooner), page becomes live. 2 tickets lower tier please, type in the catchprase (!!!!????), brief wait and it comes back with block 108!!
You must be fking absolutely joking! 108? Right at the back.
I'm not paying £77 each to be then sat at the back!
Click to search for new tickets, same againm ste seats. Repeat 4 times more until then told nothing at all is available and shown a pop-up for Get Me In. Have a look at it, Block 115 (next to stage) £147!!!
wkERS!!!!
king fkety fk can GOOD tickets not be available for fans to buy at fking reasonable prices - IE - face fking value!!!!!So, 9am today I'm on there refreshing away for Queen and Adam Lambert tickets (Mrs Fastra absolulely loves the crooner), page becomes live. 2 tickets lower tier please, type in the catchprase (!!!!????), brief wait and it comes back with block 108!!
You must be f
king absolutely joking! 108? Right at the back.I'm not paying £77 each to be then sat at the back!
Click to search for new tickets, same againm s
te seats. Repeat 4 times more until then told nothing at all is available and shown a pop-up for Get Me In. Have a look at it, Block 115 (next to stage) £147!!!w
kERS!!!!- behold tickets at sold at inflated price shocker.
This lot
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/compet...
Really need to take a serious look at Ticketmaster and it's ilk
kazste said:
Did you try for resale tickets? I know I talking Nottingham and I guess your talking O2 arena but I managed without any issue getting tickets on the closes side view and row f at the Nottingham arena.
Do you mean Ticketmaster resale site 'Get me In' or something else?Get Me In had decent tickets for twice face value - £147.
The whole system is corrupt and needs sorting (and has been for a long time), so proper fans get a reasonable chance to get decent tickets. At the moment the whole thing is geared for Touts and backhanders.
...and it's Manchester I'm after.
Just looked on Get Me In.
Block 115 Row S £110 each - which is nearly reasonable for this place (someone else has same block but Row T for £198!!!)
So 2 tickets = £220 PLUS £40 admin fee (!!!!!!
) - TOTAL £260!!!f
k OFF wkERS!!!!!Edited by Fastra on Saturday 4th October 15:22
I couldn't agree more, the whole thing is just a scam. Unless you are booking tickets within 10 secs of them going on sale, for an event in 9 months time you will have to pay a tout if you want to go the event. I really don't understand why they don't extend the laws around the resale football tickets to event tickets.
I have loved the actions of some artists over the years around this issue - I remember when Take That first got back together and started their first dates at the Etihad Stadium, 3 dates to begin with, then added a couple of more, then a couple of more, then a few more. If you wanted to go you could buy a ticket at face value because they just kept adding new dates. The touts must have lost a fortune, I remember tickets selling for less than £5 on Ebay, with lots just not selling at all.
I have loved the actions of some artists over the years around this issue - I remember when Take That first got back together and started their first dates at the Etihad Stadium, 3 dates to begin with, then added a couple of more, then a couple of more, then a few more. If you wanted to go you could buy a ticket at face value because they just kept adding new dates. The touts must have lost a fortune, I remember tickets selling for less than £5 on Ebay, with lots just not selling at all.
I thought of this thread yesterday: I'd had an email from the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday with the usual list of upcoming concerts and saw that Eric Clapton is playing 4 gigs next May, tickets on sale the next day at 9am.
Luckily I didn't need to leave for work until later, so I got ready with my laptop at 8:50 only to see that I was being held in a queue and was around number 3000. There were instructions not to refresh the page or try to access other parts of their website as it may put me back in the queue, so I sat there watching it count down nervously (sometimes my wifi drops without warning and I have to reconnect).
While I waited I had a look on the web on my phone and found a link via the Daily Mail to tickets for the night in question. They were £229, plus admin fee, postage and VAT, so around £550 for two tickets!! At this point I was almost thinking I'd just close my laptop and leave for work, but by then I was down to about 500 so I thought I may as well just wait until I got to the booking page to see how much the tickets were directly.
I was amazed to see that the same seats were around £7-80, though of course by this point I kept getting an error while trying to book two (I failed to notice that it was telling me that the number of seats weren't available). In the end I changed to another night and the only option for two seats together was with a restricted view, but since they were only £60 each plus admin fee I bought them anyway. Maybe I won't get a clear view of the whole stage, but at least I'll be there.
What annoys me is that checking afterwards I could still have bought seats in a better position for either night, but at the cost of £550 the pair rather than the £128 I paid. Granted had they been available with unrestricted view they would have been an extra £20 the pair, but still £148 verses £550. Someone is making a killing on these tickets.
It's not often I go to concerts these days (too many disappointing events with awful sound at larger stadiums), but it really gets under my skin how these companies can buy up blocks of tickets which prevent fans buying directly from the event at face value.
Luckily I didn't need to leave for work until later, so I got ready with my laptop at 8:50 only to see that I was being held in a queue and was around number 3000. There were instructions not to refresh the page or try to access other parts of their website as it may put me back in the queue, so I sat there watching it count down nervously (sometimes my wifi drops without warning and I have to reconnect).
While I waited I had a look on the web on my phone and found a link via the Daily Mail to tickets for the night in question. They were £229, plus admin fee, postage and VAT, so around £550 for two tickets!! At this point I was almost thinking I'd just close my laptop and leave for work, but by then I was down to about 500 so I thought I may as well just wait until I got to the booking page to see how much the tickets were directly.
I was amazed to see that the same seats were around £7-80, though of course by this point I kept getting an error while trying to book two (I failed to notice that it was telling me that the number of seats weren't available). In the end I changed to another night and the only option for two seats together was with a restricted view, but since they were only £60 each plus admin fee I bought them anyway. Maybe I won't get a clear view of the whole stage, but at least I'll be there.
What annoys me is that checking afterwards I could still have bought seats in a better position for either night, but at the cost of £550 the pair rather than the £128 I paid. Granted had they been available with unrestricted view they would have been an extra £20 the pair, but still £148 verses £550. Someone is making a killing on these tickets.
It's not often I go to concerts these days (too many disappointing events with awful sound at larger stadiums), but it really gets under my skin how these companies can buy up blocks of tickets which prevent fans buying directly from the event at face value.
OldSkoolRS said:
I thought of this thread yesterday: I'd had an email from the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday with the usual list of upcoming concerts and saw that Eric Clapton is playing 4 gigs next May, tickets on sale the next day at 9am.
Luckily I didn't need to leave for work until later, so I got ready with my laptop at 8:50 only to see that I was being held in a queue and was around number 3000. There were instructions not to refresh the page or try to access other parts of their website as it may put me back in the queue, so I sat there watching it count down nervously (sometimes my wifi drops without warning and I have to reconnect).
While I waited I had a look on the web on my phone and found a link via the Daily Mail to tickets for the night in question. They were £229, plus admin fee, postage and VAT, so around £550 for two tickets!! At this point I was almost thinking I'd just close my laptop and leave for work, but by then I was down to about 500 so I thought I may as well just wait until I got to the booking page to see how much the tickets were directly.
I was amazed to see that the same seats were around £7-80, though of course by this point I kept getting an error while trying to book two (I failed to notice that it was telling me that the number of seats weren't available). In the end I changed to another night and the only option for two seats together was with a restricted view, but since they were only £60 each plus admin fee I bought them anyway. Maybe I won't get a clear view of the whole stage, but at least I'll be there.
What annoys me is that checking afterwards I could still have bought seats in a better position for either night, but at the cost of £550 the pair rather than the £128 I paid. Granted had they been available with unrestricted view they would have been an extra £20 the pair, but still £148 verses £550. Someone is making a killing on these tickets.
It's not often I go to concerts these days (too many disappointing events with awful sound at larger stadiums), but it really gets under my skin how these companies can buy up blocks of tickets which prevent fans buying directly from the event at face value.
I got this too but, oddly, when I checked at 8.48 there was no queue but at 8.55 I was number 3097 - coincidence or what. The whole thing is fLuckily I didn't need to leave for work until later, so I got ready with my laptop at 8:50 only to see that I was being held in a queue and was around number 3000. There were instructions not to refresh the page or try to access other parts of their website as it may put me back in the queue, so I sat there watching it count down nervously (sometimes my wifi drops without warning and I have to reconnect).
While I waited I had a look on the web on my phone and found a link via the Daily Mail to tickets for the night in question. They were £229, plus admin fee, postage and VAT, so around £550 for two tickets!! At this point I was almost thinking I'd just close my laptop and leave for work, but by then I was down to about 500 so I thought I may as well just wait until I got to the booking page to see how much the tickets were directly.
I was amazed to see that the same seats were around £7-80, though of course by this point I kept getting an error while trying to book two (I failed to notice that it was telling me that the number of seats weren't available). In the end I changed to another night and the only option for two seats together was with a restricted view, but since they were only £60 each plus admin fee I bought them anyway. Maybe I won't get a clear view of the whole stage, but at least I'll be there.
What annoys me is that checking afterwards I could still have bought seats in a better position for either night, but at the cost of £550 the pair rather than the £128 I paid. Granted had they been available with unrestricted view they would have been an extra £20 the pair, but still £148 verses £550. Someone is making a killing on these tickets.
It's not often I go to concerts these days (too many disappointing events with awful sound at larger stadiums), but it really gets under my skin how these companies can buy up blocks of tickets which prevent fans buying directly from the event at face value.
king shambolic and very off pissing.Did you manage to get a ticket? I was kicking myself for not connecting earlier, but it sounds like I'd have been no better off seeing what happened to you. I just don't know how anyone could get a ticket at face value for a decent seat if you were slightly too early the first time and I was straight in at 3000th two minutes later...
OldSkoolRS said:
Did you manage to get a ticket? I was kicking myself for not connecting earlier, but it sounds like I'd have been no better off seeing what happened to you. I just don't know how anyone could get a ticket at face value for a decent seat if you were slightly too early the first time and I was straight in at 3000th two minutes later...
Got seats but pretty st ones, but as there aren't going to be too many more of these I thought I'd better make the best of it.Happens all the time!
I go to 4 or 5 gigs a year (actual out-of town jobs, usualy brum, manchester or london) but I'm sick of scrabbling to get tickets at face value only to turn up at the show and see touts a plenty!
The online reselling is even worse! If i have spares, I'll want what they owe me + a round of beers, thats it, not £70 for a £15 ticket...
I go to 4 or 5 gigs a year (actual out-of town jobs, usualy brum, manchester or london) but I'm sick of scrabbling to get tickets at face value only to turn up at the show and see touts a plenty!
The online reselling is even worse! If i have spares, I'll want what they owe me + a round of beers, thats it, not £70 for a £15 ticket...
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